Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, after ascertaining and deducting all the costs, charges, and expenses incurred by the United States in and about the arrest, detention, and commitment of Thaddeus P. Haskell, to the custody of the marshal of the United States for the northern district of the State of New York, in October, eighteen hundred and forty-five, on a charge for passing counterfeit money, to repay to the bail of said Thaddeus, Richard Bloss, and others, the amount paid by them on the forfeited recognizance and bond for the appearance of said Thaddeus; the said Thaddeus having since his default been retaken and convicted and imprisoned for said offence.

Approved, June 13, 1848.